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HIELAND DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 6800604 · 1 · UNCOMPAHGRE RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 23:39 by Hydrohistorian. Sources: DWR HydroBase snapshot HydroBase_CO_20260707 (history) + CDSS REST (current), USGS NWIS cross-checks. Engine v0.5.0 (2deb1d7) — every figure regenerates from this named code version and data image.
Where it sits
Location as DWR records it. Faint dots are the neighbouring water; click any to open it.
Which of its rights are out of priority?
Not computable for this structure: this structure is not on the modelled flow network, so no reference gage can honestly stand in for it.
Where it sits in line
Priority 1877-06-01 — 18th most senior of the 1293 structures with decreed rights in this water districtDWR's administrative subdivision of a river basin; the unit calls are usually stated in..
Under prior appropriationColorado's rule for sharing water: first in time, first in right. Age decides, not proximity or need., everything ahead of it in this line is satisfied in full before it receives any water. Immediately ahead: D Q DITCH (1877-06-01). Immediately behind: STOUGH DITCH (1877-06-01).
Decreed rights (3)
| Admin noDWR's numeric encoding of a water right's seniority. Smaller is more senior; the integer part counts days from 1849-12-31 to the date that ranks the right. | AppropriatedWhen water was first put to beneficial use. It sets seniority unless a prior adjudication date is later. | AdjudicatedWhen the water court confirmed the right. A use decreed in 1975 was not a decreed use in 1955, however old the appropriation is. | AbsoluteA right actually put to use, as opposed to conditional -- a placeholder for a use not yet made. | ConditionalA right reserving a place in line for a use not yet made; it must be diligently pursued or it lapses. | Units | UsesWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on. | Case |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10014.0 | 1877-06-01 | 1897-05-15 | 1.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRAUG | |
| 12475.0 | 1884-02-26 | 1897-05-15 | 9.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRAUG | 82 |
| 29554.12905 | 1885-05-01 | 1942-05-11 | 6.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 40 |
Legal record & documents
7 decreed actions on record across
4 court cases:
CA1959, CA1332, CA0939, 98CW0249.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
CA1959 | 1 | 1942-05-11 | S |
CA1332 | 1 | 1897-05-15 | O |
CA0939 | 1 | 1897-05-15 | O |
98CW0249 | 4 | 1897-05-15 | O |
DWR's own records for this structure: net amounts · transactions & adjudication history · scanned decrees (search a case number there for the imaged document). On this site: the district's full legal picture →
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 4,499 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 4,253 AF — 94% of that, and 6th lowest of the 15 years with a recorded volume.
| Year | Diverted (AFA volume: one acre covered a foot deep, about 326,000 gallons -- roughly a suburban household's outdoor use for a year.) | Compared with its own record | Days recorded | Peak (cfs) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 4,596 | 10th lowest of 15 · 102% of median | 264 | 20.2 |
| 2012 | 4,072 | 5th lowest of 15 · 90% of median | 304 | 14.6 |
| 2013 | 3,350 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 74% of median | 201 | 15.7 |
| 2014 | 4,620 | 11th lowest of 15 · 103% of median | 289 | 18.9 |
| 2015 | 4,545 | 9th lowest of 15 · 101% of median | 261 | 18.4 |
| 2016 | 3,828 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 85% of median | 187 | 17.7 |
| 2017 | 4,302 | 7th lowest of 15 · 96% of median | 232 | 19.9 |
| 2018 | 4,029 | 4th lowest of 15 · 90% of median | 332 | 19.0 |
| 2019 | 5,040 | 14th lowest of 15 · 112% of median | 365 | 16.3 |
| 2020 | 4,499 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 332 | 15.1 |
| 2021 | 4,896 | 13th lowest of 15 · 109% of median | 335 | 14.4 |
| 2022 | 4,736 | 12th lowest of 15 · 105% of median | 247 | 14.0 |
| 2023 | 5,547 | 15th lowest of 15 · 123% of median | 342 | 15.1 |
| 2024 | 3,144 | 1st lowest of 15 · 70% of median | 247 | 13.1 |
| 2025 | 4,253 | 6th lowest of 15 · 94% of median | 200 | 17.0 |
Trends for this structure
Recorded use shows no clear trend over its last 15 recorded years — which is itself worth knowing.
How good is our record of it?
Grade A (9/10 points) — the components below are the finding; the letter alone is not.
The rubric, component by component
| Check | State | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| identity | complete | name, type, and water source all on file |
| decreed rights | on file | 3 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 12377 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | continuous | 77% of the irrigation seasons in 1950-2025 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
Advisory reading aid on public data — not an administrative or legal conclusion, not a title opinion, and not a substitute for DWR administration or an engineer's analysis. Methodology review status is disclosed at hydrohistorian's basin pages.